I can't remember since when I started to get this urge of traveling, again and again. I remember I went to several places to cover stories since I was working as news journalist. And then I travel for traveling program on tv. And now, when I don't work in any institution or company, I still travel around Indonesia.

Then I can't answer. I would be so hard to find the best destination in Indonesia. Why? Honestly because there are too many. I love the beautiful blue Flores sea, seeing brownish islands in contrast with blue from the sea and sky.

The blue sky. One of the things I will always love. When the sun is shining hard, that's when the sky turns so blue and the sea follows, exuding colors which makes me feels so blessed living in this beautiful country.

Indonesia have too much. I remember my trip in Rinjani Mountain. I was in one spot, a place where I was so stunned by the sensations of being above the clouds, a beauty without comma. Mesmerizing, I was drunken by those beauties.

With my former producer, Reno Permana, I got into the travel world because of him, gotta thank him much!

I remember jumping happily in front of the green rice field in Samosir, enjoying the wind breeze and the calm Toba Lake. I remember waiting for sunrise to light up and give a view of Bromo, which seems like being arranged carefully, no flaws at all. There are a lot of places in Indonesia which seems like being arranged in all aspects, it seems like God already put the nicest composition for us to see and take pictures. I ain't the professional photographer but my hands is aching if I don't took any photos, if I don't immortalize the beauty in a picture.

Bunch of fun part is also attached in my memories during traveling Indonesia. I remember screaming in excitements when dozens of dolphins came approaching our boat and greeted us in a very nice way in Bunaken. I remember enjoying Makassar foods so much, it indulge my taste and stomach, makes me forgot that I gotta give a break in between those culinary frenzy.

Imagine large size cartoon characters in one area, glow beautifully. Imagine a palace in the form of huge lanterns. Imagine a lake with glowing lotus, fish and swans. This place is a a very nice place, Lantern Garden.

Located
in Batu Night Spectacular, Batu Town , about 15 kilometers from the Malang City. Commonly called "BNS," this playground is very dense,
especially on the weekend. I gotta jostling to get into the glass house shaped like Louvre pyramid in Paris, France. Also, I you gotta queuing to be "intimidated" in the haunted house.

As the name implies, the park on the left side of the BNS is filled with lanterns, but in a lot of different forms. Starting from the dwarfs, mushroom, Donald Duck and other Disney cartoon characters, to a large palace, shark and the dragon.

Walking along the Lantern Garden, you'll enjoy various forms of lanterns. In
the middle of the area there is a small pond with lotus, duck, fish
and swan made from lanterns, making beautiful light reflections.

Besides that, there are some miniature of famous buildings in the world such as the Eiffel Tower made of lights and the Great Wall of China. The fun part is also because there isn't any fence that separate us from the lantern so you can stand next to those lanterns and take good photos of yourself.

This is kind of crowd we would love

Shining palace

This is a nice place
to enjoy the night, just try to forget the crowd :)

One of the best location to see the dragons is in Rinca Island, with Loh Buaya which means bay of dragons as entrance. Then you will be greeted with
two large komodo dragon statue in standing position. "If komodo dragons fights, they would jump in a standing position like that," said the guide who accompanied us.

But to see komodo dragons fighting certainly need a some specific time period and of course the luck itself. But I consider myself pretty lucky with three dragons greeted and just relaxing under the wooden building near the first post .

These largest lizard in the world natural habitat is only at Komodo National Park and this is also the reason why this place crowned as the New 7 Wonders of Nature. Imagine a lizard with a size up to 3 meters and weigh 90 to 136 kilograms, true wonders of nature!

These komodo dragons in Rinca island seems careless to our presence, but still we gotta keep eye on. The ranger in Rinca Island will told you brief information and also the dos and don't s there all answer all your questions regarding safety. But don't worry, all those scary things running in your head will disappear in an instant when you start to feel the fun and excited seeing komodo dragons.

"Komodo run in a straight line, they can't do a zig zag run," the ranger explain again why people been telling me to run zig zag if a komodo chasing me. Actually what was on my mind is I wouldn't even think about zig zag when being chased by a komodo dragon, I would be so panic.

During trekking, there will be several places that the ranger will stop and show, like the spawning area. "Komodo will dig up couple of times, long before spawning," said the ranger while pointing at a big komodo dragon digging the sand when we came.

But
there is one location that for me became one of the iconic of Rinca Island. There is one hill where you can get the spectacular view of Komodo National Park. You don't even need a long time to get there, even in short trekking you'll find this hill, where you can see the blue sea collide beautifully with the landscape of islands in Komodo area, plus the blue sky which make the view even more perfect.

Come on tell me it's not beautiful, no?

Tell me again this ain't beautiful, no?

True beauty, combine with beast, a unique wonderful beast to
be exact. The komodo dragon.